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Grand Piano by Pleyel
Upright Piano by Pleyel
The Covington piano, brought to the Oregon Territory in 1846, is widely recognized as the first piano in the Pacific Northwest. It is an 1830s Pleyel rosewood upright originally shipped from England around Cape Horn to Fort Vancouver.
The instrument was a wedding gift to educators Richard and Charlotte (Anna) Covington, who were recruited by the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1848, the couple built a log cabin on a donation claim in the Fourth Plain area of Orchards, Washington (now known as the historic Covington House
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Grand Piano by Pleyel
This grand piano was made by Pleyel in Paris, France in 1866. It was sold by Pleyel to Sr. Martin y Salazar in Madrid, who brought it to Washington, DC. when he was the Spanish ambassador. Bought from the ambassador, it came to the Smithsonian from Mrs. Richard Kashe of Washington, DC. This piano is serial number 42423 and has a compass of AAA-a4, an English grand action, felt over 3 layers of leather hammers, single-, double-, and triple-strings, 2 pedals: una corda and dampers, an iron string plate frame with tension bars, straight-strung, and a rosewood veneer case.
Credit: Smithsonian
Grand Piano by Pleyel
Compass: CC-f4 (6+ octaves)
Two pedals: una corda and dampers. English grand piano action.
CC to EE unichord; FF to E-flat bichord, E-f4 trichord.
Bridge divided at G-sharp/A.
Cast-iron hitch-pin plate from e1 to top, from which there are three iron struts to the wrest plank. There are also iron struts under the soundboard from the belly rail to the tail and bent side.
Soundboard veneered in mahogany.
